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Thursday, January 15, 2009

I was going through some pictures and realized that I never put any up from Christmas with my inlaws.

Here's my cute little niece, Ryan. I just like to hold her and cuddle her and sniff her sweet little baby head. What is it about baby's heads that just smell so... babyish? Ahhh.She hates me though. She screams every time I try to hold her. :(

Here's my little punk, Clay with his favoritist, Lightning McQueen!

And Miss Lexi, happy with her Hannah Montana design toy.

Jax looking too cool for pictures.

Aj with his shirt that reads, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye, then it's Hey! Free eyeball!"

My Savannah jammin to her tunes.

And here's Miss Brooklyn in all her dress-up clothes. She's such a girly-girl. See the skirt she's wearing? It's her "pokey pokey skirt". Joe's grandma, Rose gave Lex and Brooklyn these skirts that come with little music boxes in a hidden pocket. These music boxes play the Hokey Pokey. Again and again and again and again and again.... Gee, thanks Rose!

Speaking of Rose, this is Joe's grandma. Ever since I've known her, she's been one feisty lady; always saying what's on her mind; sharp as a tack. She's the one I twittered about last week. She fell and broke her leg. She was hospitalized because of the break and the fact that she had bleeding in her brain and couldn't remember the event.

I'm happy to say the bleeding in her brain is much better. She needed surgery on her femur to repair it, but doctors couldn't operate until her blood was thicker (she'd been taking too much Coumadin and her blood was too thin to do surgery for a couple days.) Her surgery went well, but then she had problems with fluid in her lungs. With diuretics, doctors were able to fix that. Then, because all that other stuff wasn't enough, off the Coumadin, she developed blood clots in her legs! They were able to put a filter in her veins to keep the clots from traveling. Whew! So that's where she stands right now. It looks like she just fell and didn't suffer a stroke like was originally thought. She's recovering well and should be moved to a rehab facility soon. Thank you everyone for your continued prayers!

23 comments:

I'm so glad she made it through all that. It sounds like the worst is over and she should be up and moving before you even expect it. My uncle fell down the stairs and it didn't work out too well. He ended up trapped in his body for another year.

I'll definitely be praying for Rose. She is the poster child for why they say growing old is not for wimps. The least little thing becomes a base for all the other things that aren't all that significant by themselves, but when you pile up 5 or 6 at a time, even a minor thing becomes a major deal! I'm so glad to hear she didn't have a stroke. God bless her with a complete and speedy recovery.Thanks for the pictures. Your children are beautiful, by the way - but then you knew that already. And your little niece is simply 'dorable! :)

It was very early in the morning when i read this, and my brain wasn't up yet. The very first thing i thought on the first picture was, "hey! i thought Brooklyn was older than that." and then i started trying to figure out how many months it had been since Christmas. haha. duh!

Hi Dawn, Tell Joe we have his Grandma in our Prayers! I just love Grandma's, they are so presious in our lives. Also, Where did you get the Loose an eye shirt? I have a friend with a glass eye and he would totally laugh at that shirt! Kristine in Michigan.

Glad to hear Rose is doing better. The Hockey Pokey skirt, we have one too. My girls took the music maker out of the skirt and will play that thing EVERYWHERE in the house. We also have the ballet song skirt too. Augh! Thanks Gramda

For SSO: Ok, Thanks a BUNCH for listing that shirt that Austin got for Christmas("It's all fun & games...")-now MY son wants one so....where'd you get it? Also, my 2 y.o. came running in to see what all the laughing was about and now SHE wants a Pokey Pokey skirt. So...where'd Grandma Rose pick up that little number? Jeesh~reading this *free* blog is starting to cost me~~Unrelated-thank you so very much for adding levity to my life. I'm SO happy for you, all of your success, but mostly for the service you give of helping us all know that our most important jobs (mom) is wonderfully chaotic and it's ok, nay-encouraged, to laugh daily!!! U ROCK!!!!

Aww look at you so pretty in your Christmas makeup! You look great, Dawn.

And for the skirts... if there's a pocket, don't pockets sometimes get holes? And if there was a hole, might not a music box fall our? Then might said music box get misplaced? And then might there never be a litany of hoky poky again? Just sayin'

And so glad to hear that Rose is doing better. I went through similar fix one thing only to break another issues with my gram for years. It's no fun for anyone... but here's hoping she gets into and out of the rehab center quickly!